Strengthening Transmission Utilities and System Operators
February 21, 2023
Presentation on a Cross Border Electricity Trade, Regional Energy Cooperation and Emerging Outlook for South Asia & b) Updates in SAFIR member countries on the Existing Energy/Electricity Regulatory Framework and Perspective on Regulatory Cooperation to facilitate knowledge sharing, addressing cross cutting Energy/Electricity Regulatory Issues by Rajiv Ratna Panda, Power Market Specialist , SAREP
February 21, 2023
Presentation on Updates on the Current Activities of the SAFIR Working Group (SWG) & Work Plan activities for FY 2023-24 by Rajiv Ratna Panda, Power Market Specialist , SAREP.
February 21, 2023
Presentation on Draft Key Findings on the Assessment of Potential Benefits of Cross Border Electricity Trade & Framework for Ancillary Services Market in South Asia
February 20, 2023
Presentation on Draft Key Findings on the Study on ‘South Asia Energy/Electricity Regulations to develop Regulatory Road Map for Electricity/Energy Exchange and Energy Cooperation among South Asian Countries’
July 4, 2022
The United States Agency for International Development (USAlD) is an independent government agency that provides economics, development and humanitarian assistance around the world in support of the foreign policy goals of the United States. USAID’s mission is to dvance broad-based economics growth, democracy, and human progress in developing countries and emerging economies.
July 4, 2022
The BBINS region currently resides in an energy paradox, being rich in energy reserves while lagging in access to reliable, affordable, and clean energy on the other hand.
July 4, 2022
The draft Report was circulated to the key officials and decision makers in South Asian Country governments (Energy/Power Ministries), Electricity Regulatory Commissions, Planning Authorities etc. Their feedback and thoughts have helped make this report more robust and relevant to all the stakeholders.
July 4, 2022
COVID-19 has impacted economies across the world in unprecedented ways, including by taking a toll on the South Asian power sector.
June 23, 2022
Hotter years are associated with lower economic output in developing countries. We show that the effect of temperature on labor is an important part of the explanation.
June 13, 2022
Based on the invitation received Mr. Rajiv Ratna Panda, Associate Director, SARI/EI/IRADe participated as speaker in the second in a 2021 series of webinar from the Clean Energy Ministerial’s Regional and Global Energy Interconnection (RGEI) Initiative held on 4th March,2021 and presented on “One Sun One World One Grid: Energy Integration in South Asia”.
June 13, 2022
I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the excellent work done by the SARI/EI team at IRADe andloitte India in developing the background paper.
June 13, 2022
Natural gas (NG) is less polluting than other fossil fuels for power generation, as also for transportation, household and industry sector and also offers economic advantage in preference to other fuel options.
May 23, 2022
Nearly a billion people, mostly in rural Africa and South Asia, do not have electricity at home. The advent of off-grid solar power means that many of these households, at the frontier of global electrification, have a choice between competing sources of electricity.
May 13, 2022
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered and highly contagious Coronavirus. The virus was stated to have originated sometime in the month of December 2019 in the Wuhan district of China.
May 13, 2022
The “#9pm9minute” candle light event on 3rd April demonstrated both the high resilience of the Indian Grid, as well as the unique level of cooperation amongst the BBIN countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal) towards operation of the regional grid.